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Sunday
, September 6
17:30 AEST
Conference opening ceremony: "Challenging the narrative of evaluation" John Hattie
Melbourne School of Design
Maxine McKew • Lyn Alderman • John Hattie
Monday
, September 7
09:00 AEST
Plenary 1: Keynote address "Why am I paying you to tell me what I already know?" Ian Anderson and Liz McKinley
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Timoci O’Connor • Anona Armstrong AM • Ian Anderson • Elizabeth McKinley
11:00 AEST
Qualitative event evaluation: the AES Darwin 2014 Conference
Room 110
Laurie Porima • sigrid patterson • Charlie Tulloch
Drawing out the values: Social Return on Investment and Public Value discourse lenses
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • Linda Kurti • Julian Thomas
Plan-deliver-learn: Driving an evaluative mindset
Room 108
Kylie Brosnan • Sarita Narayan
Not another ECB story: Applying Cousins' Framework for organisational evaluation capacity to support the Australian Human Rights Commission preparations for the Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework
Room 112
April Bennett • Jennifer Davis • John Stoney
Presidents' Session 1: "Reaching Across Boundaries with Exemplary Evaluation in 2025: Will the World be Better Off?" Stewart Donaldson
Room 109
Lyn Alderman • Stewart Donaldson
Formative Assessment for Evaluation: Collaborative, community-based design of evaluation tools and systems
Room 107
Sally Faisandier • Hadeel Al-Nawab • Amy Gullickson
Evaluation: enabling stronger and better communities
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Timoci O’Connor • Ian Anderson • Elizabeth McKinley
11:30 AEST
Evaluator personality preferences - Implications for influencing evaluation design and utilisation
Room 110
Laurie Porima • Eve Barboza
From promise to practicalities: Applying complex systems concepts and methods in evaluation research with peer and community based programs
Room 108
Kylie Brosnan • Graham Brown • Daniel Reeders
CANCELLED Application of evaluative monitoring for adaptive planning, monitoring and evaluation within a bi-lateral aid partnership model programme
Room 112
April Bennett • Kate Averill • Turisia Pranawisanti
Use of Evaluation to Consolidate the Adoption of Innovatory Programs
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • Jacqui Borg • Rick Cummings • John Owen
12:00 AEST
Competencies across boundaries: applying a Canadian tool to Australasian competences
Room 110
Laurie Porima • Emma Williams
A flexible, multi-purpose monitoring, evaluation, and learning system to support Australian agriculture international aid and development programs: theories, practices, and lessons learned
Room 112
April Bennett • Samantha Stone-Jovicich
Applying complexity theory to evaluation: Reflecting on research to inform practice
Room 108
Kylie Brosnan • Mat Walton
Evaluative reasoning: How are we doing? Can we do better?
Room 107
Sally Faisandier • Heather Nunns
13:30 AEST
An old idea still good? A discourse on Owen's Forms and Approaches model
Room 111
Janice Brown • Brad Astbury • John Owen • John Stoney
Getting ethics clearance and consent on projects undertaken with community based Aboriginal research practitioners - The ARPNet experience on the Bushfires CRC project in the Top End
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Alison Reedy • Hmalan Hunter-Xenie • Bev Sithole
Using multi-methods to evaluate clinical services: A case study.
Room 112
Gail Kelly • Kerryn Butler • Rebecca Reeve
A whole-of-agency perspective on evidence-based policy making
Room 109
Gabby Fennessy • Ben Barnes • Rebecca Wilkinson
Performance measurement: Exploring the gap between promise and practice, using Client Satisfaction as a case study
Room 107
Sally Faisandier • Julie McGeary
So now you've got the data, what next? Collaborative sensemaking to navigate diversity
Room 108
Gill Westhorp • Irene Guijt • Kate McKegg • Judy Oakden
Using digital technology across the range of tasks in evaluation
Room 110
Eve Barboza • Larraine Larri • Delyth Lloyd • Patricia Rogers
14:00 AEST
Evaluating a national workforce reform initiative: Lessons from the Australian experience with expanded scopes of practice in - primary care physiotherapy, emergency nursing, nurse endoscopy and extended care p...
Room 111
Janice Brown • Cristina Thompson
Your Shed and Dementia: From local stories to a National intervention
Room 112
Gail Kelly • Samantha Abbato
Finding Courageous Clients: an emerging evaluator's reflections on the balance between innovation and caution
Room 109
Gabby Fennessy • Joanna Farmer
Using two lenses in understanding partnerships within a state-wide community-based childhood obesity prevention program
Room 107
Adeola Capel • Margaret Cargo • Agustina Gancia • Michelle Jones
Improving the evidence for communities and policy makers to assist in addressing Indigenous disadvantage in the criminal justice system
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Alison Reedy • Ruth McCausland • Cleonie Quayle • Anne Redman
14:15 AEST
Getting to the real 'value in value for money': Using economics evaluatively
Room 108
Gill Westhorp • Julian King
14:30 AEST
Practical facilitation tips and tools to engage people in your evaluation
Room 110
Eve Barboza • Vanessa Hood • Natalie Moxham
Project of terminological dictionary of evaluation: A much needed attempt at clarity
Room 111
Janice Brown • Ghislain Arbour
Animal Evaluation: How should the evaluator talk with animals?
Room 112
Gail Kelly • David Brous
Evaluating the impact of cancer research funding: All together now
Room 107
Adeola Capel • Nicci Bartley
Insights into the needs of teen parents: Conducting a needs assessment using Photovoice
Room 109
Gabby Fennessy • Pauline Dickinson
15:30 AEST
Improving children's early numeracy: An evaluation of the Let's Count program
Room 112
Gail Kelly • Anne Hampshire
Politics at play: New imperatives in evaluating foreign aid interventions
Room 107
Duncan Rintoul • Sue Cant
My life as an evaluator: Stories from the field to induce laughter and learning
Room 110
Kirsten Sterling • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum • Julian King • Krystin Martens • Ian Patrick
An evaluator reflects on forty years of developing a transdisciplinary meta-evaluation conceptual framework from practice-based evidence in Australia
Room 111
Saville Kushner • Yoland Wadsworth
Evaluating as an Outsider or an Insider: A Two-way Approach guided by the Knowers of Culture
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Alison Reedy • Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama • Bronwyn Rossingh • Yalmay Yunupingu
Evaluation and Technology: Making it work.
Room 108
Keren Winterford • Sandra Stopher
Keep Them Safe: lessons from a large scale evaluation of child welfare reform
Room 109
Sue Leahy • Rebecca Cassells • Christine Eastman • Ilan Katz • Peter Ryan
16:00 AEST
Building a Bridge: Participatory evaluation with vulnerable communities on a small budget: Evaluating an innovative community engagement project with people of refugee background in Brisbane.
Room 112
Martin Pritchard • Sarah Renals
Impacts of the 2009 Government of Canada Policy on Evaluation on the federal government evaluation system
Room 107
Duncan Rintoul • Benoît Gauthier
16:30 AEST
An innovative online tool for expanding the utility of program logic maps
Room 108
Keren Winterford • Donna Cohen
Challenges of Evaluation within a Complex Setting with Diverse Populations
Room 112
Martin Pritchard • Phoebe Cleland
The AES Evaluators' Professional Learning Competency Framework: What's next?
Room 110
Kirsten Sterling • Amy Gullickson • Delyth Lloyd • Dorothy Lucks • Margaret Macdonald • Emma Williams
Evaluations that make a difference: stories from around the world
Room 111
Saville Kushner • Scott Bayley • Vanessa Hood
Reaching across cultural boundaries to strengthen evaluation practice: The development of principles for working in, with and for Indigenous communities
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Alison Reedy • Dr. Amohia Boulton • Margaret Cargo • Lisa Warner
Defensible evaluative criteria for public sector evaluations: What do Australasian evaluators think this looks like?
Room 107
Duncan Rintoul • Mathea (Ma-tay-a) Roorda
Improving tertiary education through strengthened evaluative self-assessment
Room 109
Sue Leahy • Kate Averill • Kara Scally-Irvine
17:00 AEST
Tweeting for help - the utility of social media and digital technology in modern evaluation practice
Room 108
Keren Winterford • Rosemary McKenzie
Using a monitoring and evaluation framework to overcome the barriers to delivering services to families impacted by drought.
Room 112
Martin Pritchard • Gayle Burling • Sue Rice
17:30 AEST
AES 2015 Annual General Meeting
Room 109
Lyn Alderman
Tuesday
, September 8
08:30 AEST
Plenary 2: Keynote address "Boundary Interactions; the good, the bad and the ugly!" Marlène Läubli Loud
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Sue Leahy • Marlene Laubli Loud
09:30 AEST
The relevance of cross-cultural understanding for evaluations in development practice
Room 110
David Turner • Deborah Rhodes
How familiar are you with approaches to evaluation?
Room 111
Squirrel Main • Matt Healey • Kate Roberts
Building a framework for organisation-level monitoring, evaluation and learning: Measuring Oxfam Australia's 'Right to be Heard' active citizenship outcomes
Room 107
Robyn Grigg • Natalie Moxham • Jayne Pilkinton • Jacqueline Storey
Mirror mirror on the wall: Reflections on utilisation-focussed evaluation vs. implementation science.
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Mathea (Ma-tay-a) Roorda • Duncan Babbage • Sally Faisandier
Opening our eyes: The importance of language, concepts and ways of knowing in reaching across boundaries to develop evaluation capacity with senior Aboriginal women in remote Australia
Room 112
Bridget Roberts • Margaret Smith • Samantha Togni
Developing Cascading Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks: A Case Study of a Pacific Multi-Country program
Room 108
Irene Guijt • Anne Markiewicz
How can Evaluation contribute to policy reform? Lessons from the Evaluation of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Room 109
David Roberts • Ghislain Arbour • Ruth Aston • Janet Clinton • Anna Dabrowski • Amy Gullickson • Daniel Pinchas
10:00 AEST
Evaluation of multilingual community programs: Using appreciative inquiry for research into participant evaluation
Room 110
David Turner • Al Hines
11:00 AEST
Architectural lessons from complex cross-government evaluations
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Mathea (Ma-tay-a) Roorda • Les Trudzik
Bridging the boundaries and enriching evaluation: Conversations and experiences of a global online Community of Evaluation Practice
Room 107
Keren Winterford • Rituu B Nanda • Rajib Nandi
Take a ride in my Com-B with MEL and ToC: Measuring Social Capital and Collective Impact of Indigenous Organisations
Room 112
Bridget Roberts • Pascal Bourgeat • Kylie Brosnan • Paul Paulson
Why does monitoring not deliver?
Room 108
Irene Guijt • Jill Campbell • Zazie Tolmer
Evaluating across organisational boundaries: Utilising roundtable evaluation
Room 110
David Turner • Annie Weir
Presidents session 2: "Canada 2025: what ought to be and what will be, and how to close the gap" Benoît Gauthier
Room 109
Lyn Alderman • Benoît Gauthier
Getting serious about evaluation capacity building: lessons from a large government agency that did it strategically then evaluated it.
Room 111
Jenny de Vries • Gregory Bowen • Marita Merlene • Chris Milne
11:30 AEST
Photovoice: A participatory approach to disability service evaluation
Room 107
Keren Winterford • Natalie Seed
The right framework for the job: developing client outcomes models within the housing and homelessness sector
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Mathea (Ma-tay-a) Roorda • George Hatvani • Mark Planigale
Empowering organisations - Building evaluation capacity in a cross-cultural context
Room 112
Bridget Roberts • Madeleine Bower • Alison Rogers
Breaking down the boundaries of perception: Introducing monitoring and evaluation frameworks within a science organisation
Room 108
Irene Guijt • Helen Percy • Bruce Small • Toni White
Promoting social inclusion through monitoring and evaluation: A learning focused cross country reflection on the inclusion of people with disabilities
Room 110
David Turner • Tamara Jolly • Maud Mukova-Moses
12:00 AEST
Moller's Maze: Understanding positionality
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Mathea (Ma-tay-a) Roorda • Lara Rapson
The untapped potential of social science theory in evaluation and knowledge development - a case study of recent Indigenous evaluation studies
Room 107
Keren Winterford • Kim Grey
Why is there a need to raise the profile of cultural protocols amongst non-Indigenous evaluators in Australia and how do cultural protocols improve cross cultural evaluations?
Room 112
Bridget Roberts • Madeleine Bower
Become a Front-End Champion: Five principles for effective evaluation analysis and design.
Room 108
Irene Guijt • Anthea Rutter • Zita Unger
The ties that bind: establishing common measures for outcome evaluation across government and not-for-profit services
Room 111
Jenny de Vries • Kieran Longridge • Vanessa Rose
13:30 AEST
Plenary 3: Emerging Evaluators – A Vision for Evaluation 2025
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Ken Coghill • Ruth Aston • Allan Mua Illingworth • Sarah Mason • Melitta Rigamoto
15:30 AEST
Twenty-five years in review: An analysis of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 1989-2014
Room 109
Emma Williams • Brad Astbury • Eleanor Kennett-Smith
What auditors are saying about evaluation
Room 108
John Donnelly • Tim Kirby
Seeing beyond attendance rates: evaluating youth engagement.
Room 111
Connie Donato-Hunt • Gina Mancuso
EvalYear 2015: A watershed for the evaluation sector
Room 112
David Roberts • Dorothy Lucks
Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Learning from 'down under' and around the globe.
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Linda Kurti • Kate McKegg • Samantha Togni
The Validity of Evaluation Information: The Achilles Heel of Evaluation? A Forum with the AES Fellows
Room 110
Ralph Straton • Zita Unger
Student session: Publicising and Marketing your Work
Room 107
Hadeel Al-Nawab • Albie Colvin • Stewart Donaldson • John Hattie
16:00 AEST
The role of evaluation in reducing the over-representation of Indigenous Australian women in prison
Room 112
David Roberts • Ruth McCausland
Crossing virtual boundaries - The potential of information communication technology in evaluation
Room 108
John Donnelly • Timoci O’Connor
Social return on investment: Reaching across the 'language of value' boundary
Room 111
Connie Donato-Hunt • Anne Crawford
Evaluation Journals and Their Editors Crossing Across Boundaries
Room 109
Emma Williams • Lyn Alderman • Liz Gould • Carol Quadrelli
16:30 AEST
Breaking Bad(Boundaries ) It’s all about the Meth(odology)
Room 111
Connie Donato-Hunt • Lisa Rankin • Alison Wallace
Critically reflecting on an evidence-based project evaluation planning framework
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Linda Kurti • Elaine Huber
The Theory of Change approach in practice: lessons learned in evaluating an international advocacy campaign
Room 110
Katherine Vaughan-Davies • Keren Winterford
Two sides of the coin: Money stories from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of central Australia
Room 112
David Roberts • Carolyn Cartwright • Susan Garner
'Visible Evaluation': Using embedded evaluation to bridge the gap between professional teaching quality standards and the classroom
Room 108
John Donnelly • Kathryn Cairns • Gerard Calnin • Janet Clinton • Anna Dabrowski
Wednesday
, September 9
08:30 AEST
Plenary 4: Keynote address "Boundary spanning: The future of evaluation" Penny Hawkins
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Anthea Rutter • Penny Hawkins
09:30 AEST
Building an evaluation system that is relevant, reliable, accessible and resilient. Case study: The monitoring and reporting system for Tasmania's national parks and reserves.
Room 107
Lee-Anne Molony • Glenys Jones
The Canadian Evaluation Society's Professional Designation Program: Views from Members
Room 110
Duncan Rintoul • Shelley Borys • Benoît Gauthier • Simon Roy
Reaching across boundaries - evaluation of high stakes collaboration
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • Kate McKegg • Judy Oakden • Vivien Twyford
Evaluating impact when you have no counterfactual and a fuzzy program
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Kim Grey • Jess Dart • Irene Guijt • Patricia Rogers
Process Flow mapping for Evaluating Systems
Room 112
David Roberts • Melissa Rogan
Realist Meta-evaluation: New kid on the block?
Room 108
Sarita Narayan • Bill Walker • Gill Westhorp
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation's local prevention program
Room 109
Jenny Neale • alice dunt • Les Eastman • Matt Healey • Gail O'Donnell • Liz O'Loughlin • Manu Peeters
10:00 AEST
Measuring The Effectiveness Of Collaborative Capacity Builders: A Mental Health Case Study
Room 107
Lee-Anne Molony • Sean Chung • Lesley Van Schoubroeck
11:00 AEST
Experiencing developmental evaluation - the case of co-innovation in New Zealand's primary sector.
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • James Turner • Toni White
Evaluating inquiry-led policy reform in Australia
Room 107
Peter Ryan • Annette Michaux
Misuse of evaluation tools and techniques
Room 110
Squirrel Main • Brad Astbury • Caitlin Barry • John Stoney • Charlie Tulloch
Participatory monitoring - ensuring that all interested stakeholders have the opportunity to share in the decision making.
Room 112
Samantha Togni • Courtney Boi • John Donnelly • Doyen Radcliffe
Are we being heard? Adventures from the frontline of evaluation capacity building
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Kim Grey • Ben Barnes • Jennifer Davis • Ruth Friedman • Brian Keogh • Lyn Roberts
How to build a good performance framework
Room 108
Sarita Narayan • Caroline Henwood • Kari Sann
Presidents session 3 "Unpacking the invisible knapsack – power, privilege and professionalization" Kate McKegg
Room 109
Lyn Alderman • Kate McKegg
11:30 AEST
Evaluation as an integrated management tool: Embedding an evaluator into a program
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • Liam Downing • Sue Rogan
Measuring the effectiveness of the 'whole of system' response to family violence: A 'proof-of-concept' project
Room 107
Peter Ryan • Jeff Foote • Gail Kelly
12:00 AEST
Strengthening networking and collaboration at a regional level - using the AES Evaluators Professional Learning Competency Framework
Room 110
Squirrel Main • Julie Elliott • Susan Garner
Showcasing the application of theory-driven evaluation for a stepped-wedge, community-randomised trial to improve delivery of secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease
Room 111
Ghislain Arbour • Clancy Read
The role of evaluators in supporting the development and continuation of Indigenous programs in an era of funding uncertainty
Room 112
Samantha Togni • Connie Donato-Hunt • Anne Redman • Yvonne Weldon
Describing is good: measuring is better. A new means of measuring the effectiveness of networks and simultaneously strengthening their function.
Room 108
Sarita Narayan • Claire Grealy • Gail Winkworth
The power of case studies in evaluating impact of a large scale quality improvement program
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Kim Grey • Isla Hains
Sharpening the Focus of Evaluation Practice on Outcomes for Diverse Learners
Room 107
Peter Ryan • Dr Ro Parsons
13:30 AEST
Evaluation amidst complexity: why complexity is important and what to do about it
Room 111
Graeme Nicholas • Ann Larson
Gender Responsive Evaluation for non-gendered programs: Challenges of including a gendered lens in evaluation processes in India
Room 108
Adeola Capel • Rajib Nandi
Foundations for evaluation: piloting a targeted evaluation capacity development program with a NSW Government agency
Room 109
Jenny Neale • George Argyrous
Braiding across cultural paradigms
Room 112
Samantha Togni • Bev Hong • Angus Hikairo Macfarlane
Avoiding doing too little, too late about impact: Planning and implementing an impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation system
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Jess Dart • Irene Guijt • Greet Peersman
The illogic of logic modelling
Room 110
Michelle Jones • Saville Kushner
New performance requirements under the PGPA Act
Room 107
John Stoney • Brad Cook • Julie Elliott
14:00 AEST
What characteristics of evaluation reports make them 'useful' to decision makers?
Room 111
Graeme Nicholas • Alison Hickman
Gender justice: Evaluation across levels and dimensions of power, inequality and change
Room 108
Adeola Capel • Jayne Pilkinton • Anna Trembath
Rural R&D evaluation in Australia
Room 109
Jenny Neale • Tim Lester • Jan Paul van Moort
14:30 AEST
Reaching across disciplinary boundaries: Seeing evaluation through a positive psychology lens
Room 111
Graeme Nicholas • Kathryn Cairns • Janet Clinton • Lea Waters
Evaluating e-learning: Indigenous learners crossing higher education boundaries
Room 112
Samantha Togni • Alison Reedy
Adaptive evaluation: Reflections on a multi-layered, participatory action methodology to evaluate a partnership strategy for the prevention of men's violence against women in regional Victoria, Australia.
Room 110
Michelle Jones • Karen Crinall • Lynda McRae
Evaluating Collective Impact: Challenges and Opportunities
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Jess Dart • Ruth Aston • Kelly Hannum
It's time to ditch the 100 pager: Data viz infused evaluation reporting.
Room 108
Adeola Capel • Andre van der Walt
Considerations for presenting critical findings for the in-house evaluator: some lessons learned
Room 109
Jenny Neale • Sally Faisandier
15:30 AEST
Plenary 5: Keynote address "Stepping stones for crossing boundaries" Patricia Rogers
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Maxine McKew • Patricia Rogers
16:30 AEST
Conference close and handover, including passing of EvalYear torch
Plenary 1 (auditorium)
Maxine McKew • Lyn Alderman • Janet Clinton
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